Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-23
ANOTHER HOLOCAUST.

| ANOTHER HOLOCAUST.
Burning of Buffalo Hotel-Cremation q
Inmates-Heartrendi Scenes.
BUFFALO, March 1S.-The Richmon
Hotel and St. James Hall were burne
early this morning. Tie loss is fully half
mill on dollars. A number OF lives are rt
ported lost and many persons were in
jured. The building is situated On the Col
ner OF Main and Eagle streets, extendin
through to Washington street. The fire wa
discovered at $3.50 this morning in the new
Richmond Hotel. The alarm was sounded
and the fire department responded prompt
ly. The house contained large number O
guests and
THEIR HEARTRENDING sHRIEKs
could plainly be heard. Ladders wer,
raised as soon as possible, and as many al
could he were taken out. A large number
OF them we're able to effect their escape. Al
4 O'Clock the entire Richmond. ST.. James
Hall and other property in the block were
doomed to speedy destruction. The whole
place burned like tinder. The corridor in
the center of the building acted as great
funnel, and as the flames streamed up
wards the guests found themselves imprs'
onsd by
WALLS OF FIRE.
The screams OF the unfortunate could be
heard for blocks, and in many OF the win
dows they could be seen in their night
clo' hes, calling wildly for help. From one
OF the third story windows two guests were
l. E.1 rv< h..
flames. One man jumped from the fifth
adjoining; he was seriously injured. The
number of those injured is not exactly
known. Hon. NJ. x. Barse, OF Olean, N.
Y, was terribly burned about the hands
and wrists. A number of insurance men
we're in the building and several OF them
we're badly injured. Among them are w.
J. Mckay, of Niagara Falls; Z. NJ. Dubois,
of Syracuse; w. S. Dewey, OF Rochester,
who escaped with bad burns, and Clinton
Bidwell. Pittsburg, are badly burned. At
the hospitals are Charles Davis, New York,
hands and feet badly burned; H. b.
Smith. OF the North British Insurance
Company. OF New York, hands and feet
burned Edward Whelan, OF New York,
hands In terrible condition. They are
probably not fatally injured. All are from
INJURED are at the Sisters Hospital. There
ire also four injured persons at the gen.
,ral hospital.
The rapidity OF the fire cutting off means
II escape led some persons to leap for life
rom the windows. Others got down on
he fire escape or on ladders raised by the
Ire department. The shrieks and cries of
he poor people in the upper stories were
One man,
MAD WITH TERROR,
capped from third story window and was
licked up from the stone sidewalks on Main
treet mangled and bleeding corpse. Sew
raj who succeeded in making their escapes
re badly injured and burned and some OF
hem will probably die. It is now believed
hat at least IL persons were burned to
cath.
There were 1875 persons in the hotel, 20
I whom were guests, eight boarders and
he remainder porters, bell boys, families
I the proprietors and clerks. Twenty two
I these were rescued from the windows by
he hremeR rweuJy-twu arc aSS nosprtssss,
nd large number made their escape by
ther means.
THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE
not yet known. William H. Alport, the
light clerk, says: ut started in cloak |
,om under the stairway at $50 O'Clock.
here was nobody up but myself. the night
orter and the bell boy. I pulled all Jour
the fire alarms on diff rent floors. and
1e people came flying down stairs in their
ight clothes. The fire followed the eleva-
,r, and inside of five minutes it reached
,e top floor. I rushed out OF the door af-
II doing all could"
The bell boy, Plummer, tells his expert
ice as follows: II was dusting the read
~ room when heard a shout and Saw the
ames coming up the stairway from the
asement. Mr.. Alport and I turned on the
ose under the man stairway. Westraigat-
led the hose out and turned the valve, but
le water would not run. Then we gave
,e alarm. The watchman and l got a
ank and broke in the Eagle street en-
ance to t. e hotel. Then we got the plank
1der the fire escape of the Eagle street
ont, and we helped the people down. l
link there was about eighty-four guests in
e house."
The spread of the flames was frightful in
, ra pidity. The elevator shaft served as
fue for the flames, and the whole struc-
ire was enveloped in a few moments. AS
,on as the guests were aroused and saw
e interior exit cut off they turned to the
ndows. They could be seen standing out
ear and vivid before the lurid background
the flames.
THEIR SCREAMS WERE HORRIBLE
hear, and they could be heard for
ocks. The firemen did noble work and
mined the fire to the narrow limits of the
rec buildings named. Their work OF res.
e had many exciting incidents. Tele.
aph wires were as usual in the way OF the =
oder brigade, and much valuable time
Is lost in getting the ladders past them.
NJ oR to1 |
mber of women from the burning build
2 and then made his own escape by leap.
: from one building to another until he
a ched the corner of Washington and ,,
,rth Division streets and thus gained the
rect. William J. Mann, one OF the pro- =
ietors Of the house, and his wife, had
THRILLING EXPERIENCE !,
getting out. Mrs. Mann was terribly !
rned about the head arms and legs. s
leir little daughter Jennie was also badly !
rned. Five girls who roomed on the fifth
or made rope out Of bed clothes and
ne it out of the win ow, but none seemed ,
have the courage to start. At last one !
the five took hold and swung down to :
e window ledge. from which she was res ,,
ed, Three others came down the same +
". and then the fif, h girl started down. r
e had gone but a little distance when the !
pc parted aud &
DOWN SHE WENT i
If stories. Strange to say, she was not /
led. Her legs were terribly bruised, her t
ok badly injured, and her face and arms {
re in a frigbtful condition from burns. h
lrk Osborne. the day clerk and assistant +
,nager of the hotel, is missing. and it is c
ieved he perished. William A. Haven. OF q
HELENA, MONTANA, If
rned about the hands. feet and lace, and c
suffering from the shock. He is an engl- e
,r on the Northern Pacific Railroad. +
Buffalo Bill in Luck.
)MAHA. March 1S.-Governor Thaver
. commissioned w. F. Cody buffalo
". as aide.de-camp on his staff, with the
,k of Colonel, and also as Commissioners
Nebraska to the American exhibition in =
ndon. q
Honors to Emperor William.
BERLIN, March 21.-This evening be- a
cen 3. 600 and 1000 students, bearing c
os. banners and torches, formed in pro- r
sion and marched to the palace. The s
. extended from the palace to the opera c
nae. When the procession arrived at b
) palace the Emperor and Empress ap, fl
,red at the second windows OF the earounG a
II The students |